HEY, MY FIRST POST! Oh, yah quiet, shhh, heh, sorry. Great site and forum and I always recommend it to anyone trying to make a PC quieter.
I am another long time SPCR forum lurker but never posted until now. I put together a few quiet PC's a few years ago from reading the recommendations and some of the posts. This is the only site I know of that when a PC part is claimed to be quiet; it really is what I also consider to be quiet.
Well, now I am ready to put another PC together and I have a good idea of what parts I want to use by reading the SPCR recommends and browsing some posts, but it always seems that after I buy the parts that there is a better (quieter maybe) part that was too new to be on the SPCR recommended list and I did not know about so I did not know to search for it in the forum.

So is there a way to find out about the most current user recommended parts other than just browsing the forums?

Is there a list posted, or does anybody keep a list of user recommended parts?

If not then is it ok to got to each forum section and ask what is the current best parts recommended by SPCR users? I would think that this would be the most asked question and you would rather not have users keep asking it.

OK, thanks.
I was just hoping there was a quicker way than browsing for a couple of days. Actually I think I have been browsing for parts for a couple of weeks because I keep getting new ideas and changing my mind.

I know the SPCR recommended list is all good parts, but new parts come out so fast so it seems that it does not always have what is hot.

What if at the end of every month a "What is new and recommended this month" topic was posted to each forum Silent Component section?
Then if a user tried a new part that they would recommend they could post to that topic with the part model number, brief description and maybe a simple rating. Then "sticky" it so it would be like a list of the all the months parts in one topic, easy to find and browse through.

Well, now I am ready to put another PC together and I have a good idea of what parts I want to use by reading the SPCR recommends and browsing some posts, but it always seems that after I buy the parts that there is a better (quieter maybe) part that was too new to be on the SPCR recommended list and I did not know about so I did not know to search for it in the forum.

Yea, I agree. This is "stupid".The best thing to do seems to be to post your future system components and ask for some advice here.

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So is there a way to find out about the most current user recommended parts other than just browsing the forums?

No, unfortunately not.

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Is there a list posted, or does anybody keep a list of user recommended parts?

No.

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If not then is it ok to got to each forum section and ask what is the current best parts recommended by SPCR users? I would think that this would be the most asked question and you would rather not have users keep asking it.

This is a common problem. All this repeating is not efficient but must be OK as long as there is no other option.

I remember this kind of thing happened a lot more (endless repeating of the same "newbie" questions, on the Hydrogenaudio forums (about lossless and lossy audio compression). Now I checked back again after a lot of years. They had like 1 or 2 sticked post in each forum and in these post there are links to a wiki page about the subject with the latest recommendations.

They let people (forum users) that wanted to edit the wiki page acquire a password for editing from forum administrators. This could be done in a separate thread that has a link from the stickied thread with the wiki page link.
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Some silent storage hardware you should not missI have fixed so the relevant post to read is displayed first. If you want to read the whole thread remove the "&start=" part of the URL link.
The quietest 3.5" INTERNAL drives (1TB)Now I think the best and quietest 3.5" hard drive is WD 1TB (5200 rpm) and Samsung 1TB (7200 rpm). The Samsung is technically more impressive from a silent perspective since it is harder to silence a 7200 rpm (faster) drive than a 5200 rpm drive (= 2.5" hard drive speed).

New longer guarantee RAID versions of these might come soon too but they are usually louder or on par from a silence perspective. Also they are more expensive of course.

Thanks to all for the helpful replies.
I have been reading SPCR for about four years so, although I have not posted until now, I feel like I am not completely new to SPCR and have an idea of how to find my way around the site, but just to be sure, I thought I would ask if there was another way of finding the latest parts other than just browsing.
I like the list of links Neil posted here better than the way they are setup on the home page. I get confused of how to get to those pages from the links on the home page sometimes.

I actually have already gotten some of the parts for my next quiet PC (P182 case, sound absorbing material and a Corsair PSU) and have a good idea of the rest of the parts I want to get, but just in case there was something I might have overlooked or missed I planed to ask at that particular components forum.

Thanks for drive info Alex. I plan to do a little bit of video editing, but I dot think I need that much storage size, yet.

ummm... at the risk of sounding like a grouchy old curmudgeon, are you saying you can't see the Reference / Recommended link in the left menu on the main site? Once you're in that section, the recom. list articles are plainly visible, I think all on the first page...

He's not so much asking for articles, but more on forum user experiences with the newer stuff. At least that's how i understood it.

Lou_H wrote:

I like the list of links Neil posted here better than the way they are setup on the home page. I get confused of how to get to those pages from the links on the home page sometimes.

It takes 2 mouse clicks and maybe a tiny bit of up/down scrolling to get to any recommended page from any page on the main site -- one on the left menu link, one on the article link. I don't think I can make it any shorter.

i was thinking mostly of noobs who googled something spcr related and stumbled onto these here forums. they don't know what this site is all about as yet; the chances are they'll check newcomers section of the forums way before they discover the front page of the main site. this way it will guide them to the articles and reviews they need to begin exploring the subject while gradually familiarizing them with the site.

not saying it's the greatest idea but those articles of yours are well written and a very good source of information. a sticky in the forums will only mean some possible additional exposure for them.

OK, but consider that every FAQ in every forum links the Recommended section at the very start. And there are several stickies & announcements in the Newbies forum with links to that section. And the central blue background header on the main site has it too --

Yes, the SPCR forum culture is pretty generous & gentle to folks, but do we need to help them chew & swallow, too?

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